The aim of this paper is to find the optimal level of position limit for the Chinese Stock Index (CSI) 300 futures market. A small position limit helps to prevent price manipulations in the spot market, thus able to keep the magnitude of instantaneous price changes within policy makers'...

By incorporating behavioral sentiment to a model of limit order market, we show that behavioral sentiment not only helps to replicate most of the stylized facts simultaneously in limit order markets, but also plays a unique role in explaining these stylized facts that cannot be explained by...

This paper examines the effect of behavioral sentiment in a limit order market when agents are risk averse and arrive in the market with different time horizons. The order submission rules with respect to order type and size are determined by maximizing the expected utility of agents with...

We examine the effect of learning of uninformed traders in a dynamic limit order market with asymmetric and short-lived information. We show that the learning is effective and valuable with respect to information acquisition, forecasting and buy-sell decision accuracies, and profit opportunity...

What can traders learn and how does learning affect the market? When information is asymmetric, short-lived, and uninformed traders learn, we present an artificial limit order market model to examine the effect of learning, information value, and order aggressiveness on information dissemination...